Petrosian vs. Spassky | World Championship 1966 - GM Ben Finegold

[@BudEnzo]

Finegold is the best commentator on this channel.

[@newenglandsun4394]

Petrosian v Pachmann Bled 1961 is the game where he sacs the queen and chases the opponent's king across the board in case any one is interested.

[@thomasscholz2569]

Finegold has covered that game here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3W5ZnpmmLJ8jc0

[@newenglandsun4394]

Thomas Scholz Thanks--I'm gonna go watch that!

[@g.c.5065]

many thanks!

[@kirkstable]

@@thomasscholz2569 pathetic

[@leadnitrate2194]

@@kirkstable what??

[@willcampbell8829]

Great teacher, clear explanation full of funny asides and historical context. Cool video!! Thanks

[@philippides]

Amen :) GM Finegold is phenomenal

[@p1nesap]

Energetic commentary.

[@MachineEnterprises]

Ben, make my day better he can....

[@IDDQDSound]

I like that the thumbnail is Ben going “RAWRR!

[@alachabre]

"Chess is hard." Exchange sacs are awesome, the thing to look for if you're a B player and want to improve. My lone victory against a master hinged on an exchange sac on e4. It was G/60, my regret is that no scorecard was required so the game is now forever lost in the aether; stuck on the surface of a distant black hole.

[@MAMP]

Ben is my favorite

[@charlesshankle3178]

Petrosian is my favorite master to watch and, learn. His method is fundamentally sound. He stuck to the basics, logic. He was the master of taking what he was given, hisnopening and midgame was simple enough to alter as needed. Petrosian was not presumptive, he secured his position, nullified the opponents offense and undermined the opponents position. Petrosian had the best games to study for someone beginning chess.

[@manmoth_1990]

Classic game. Two exchange sacs and a queen sac!

[@dtouey]

Only Finegold would reference OPP when lecturing to kids.

[@cyxFrag]

SOLID

[@MSKChess]

Ben is legend, so random

[@ferro117]

I thought the Panov variation was named after mr. Variation

[@fabiankroger4645]

"...before the game started." At the end, cool joke!

[@josephmathes]

Night Moves came out in 1976, but Defer graduated highschool in 63. Thanks, Google

[@acacar89le91]

Bravo!!!

[@TheJoelak]

@10:30 why take back the f pawn with the g pawn and not the Bishop? Is it just that the pawn prevents either knight from going to e4? gxf5 breaks kingside pawn structure and locks in the Bishop, seems counterintuitive to me (then again I'm lowly rated)

[@zevialtus4757]

i think it's to keep the knights off of e4. also then black can play e4 to improve the dark-square bishop

[@Daggerfall40]

That double exchange sac was beautiful.

[@mymneisadj]

every finegold lecture should have that thump nail pic

[@zogzog1063]

Nice Ben.

[@N_B_123]

I love his lectures...Arjun is my hero...

[@dannygjk]

12:16 "Active aggressive" lol as opposed to passive aggressive?

[@largestcamil4854]

that's double thinking which mentioned in 1984

[@LunnarisLP]

Wait there was only 1 win with white in the 1966 championshop, but 6 win black.. thats pretty crazy

[@yd--nyc87]

At 22:21 in this video. I believe that's Bosque should have played Queen to g5. Connecting his rooks and staying out of the attack.

[@N_B_123]

Tal games are my favorite to watch...the Guy was a madman

[@EvilSecondTwin]

NO mention of Mike Kummer :(

[@fabiankroger4645]

+EvilSecondTwin He mentioned him!

[@EvilSecondTwin]

Fabian Kröger Where? I'm convinced I didn't hear his name.

[@justinstephenson9360]

Despite the gentle ribbing of Doug Eckhert, he has written what was (when written and may still be) the best, and now probably well out of print, book on the Keres attack

[@kelp017]

RIP Taimanov

[@miteoriadelconocimiento2576]

wild and crazy or solid?

[@sujaybms]

i guess ben is pointing out to his very nice win against yuri balashov who was at least a 100 points higher rated than himself!!! that was pretty

[@mauer1]

whats the chessboard software you use

[@nicanornunez9787]

Me, with the right comment.

[@Bbdu75yg]

Rawrrrrrrr

[@GraemeCree]

Fischer claimed people were cheating whenever he suffered a setback. The most ridiculous example was in his game with Botvinnik. He was probably winning, and blew the advantage. After Fischer's blunder, Botvinnik walked up to his team captain, Abramov, and said something. Fischer then claimed that Botvinnik was getting illegal assistance. According to Eliot Hearst, the very idea that Botvinnik would even listen to advice from a player so inferior to himself was patently absurd, and no protest was filed. Botvinnik's version of the story is that he walked up to Abramov, and said one word: "Draw", which is exactly the kind of thing you'd expect a player to say to his Team Captain at that point. The captain needs to know how every game is going, to be able to tell others whether to play for a win or a draw. But I don't think Fischer claimed anyone was cheating in this cycle. There was no need to, as he had no setbacks that needed explaining away.

[@josephfienga9575]

Workin' on our knight moves, baby!!

[@Rjmdoeseverything]

Keep this comment on an odd amount of thumbs up

[@mk-ej3cz]

You failed man

[@Rjmdoeseverything]

@@mk-ej3cz :(

[@liamlynch-bell802]

Hooray!

[@nihilistPenguinz]

I made it 61

[@TheBigCML]

I made it 65

[@marctyson4701]

how old is he?

[@nut_shell1364]

Enough

[@SteveRunciman]

Is Ben's son a chess whiz like Ben was?

[@northshores7319]

Nobody ever had a harder road to the World Championship Match than Spassky as he had to beat really good players in matches on his way to the top in 66 and 69. If we had that system in play today I think it would really be a show of just how strong Magnus is. Spassky was really stronger than Fischer in the 60's. If Fischer would have been able to face the type of players Spassky had to play on a yearly basis he would have matured sooner. He might of thought of living in the Soviet Union just to get the playing experience. He did visit there when he was a teen but was rude and was told to leave. Besides the Cold War really was an highly antagonistic era for even Chess players. Rueben Fine did not play in the 1948 Match to determine Alekhine's successor because he said he did not want to waste three months of his life watching the Russsians throwing games to each other.

[@altgreven9211]

6:36 Nd5 is bad because of Sd5: Ba1: Bd2 and 2 pices are hanging

[@KillianDefaoite]

The "terrible movie" Pawn Sacrifice? That was a great movie!!!

[@dannygjk]

LOL Seriously!? Any movie that has big inaccuracies is trash.

[@hyperinsaneshorts]

Ok sir

[@renehenriksen1735]

Ha ha ha ha ha I must laugh my ass off by the thought, that there was a chessplayer named Pachman, after the great cheese-eating hero from the modern PC-game.... ;) It´s so funny....

[@ganjalfthegreen1574]

"Thatss terrible"... good game from Petrosian

[@alansong4754]

28:30 lol i saw it before he even said it.

[@MsSwiper03]

Alan Song bb

[@chesswithrp7433]

show indian gm vidit games

[@dauntecarter1341]

Title: Pe--Trojan

[@whisky_cat]

21:25

[@georgewbushcenterforintell147]

Thanks They were using PK to influence the game

[@xyzct]

Me yelling at the clouds!

[@GraemeCree]

As good as this game is, Game 12 is even more interesting. It doesn't get much love because it ended in a draw.

[@aonpl]

He farts at 09:12

[@tiltmodeeee]

Lmaooooo 😂 😂 😂

[@TimSherman401]

"War is peace" 1984

[@Sassol66]

Pawn Sacrifice was a pretty good movie. Not the best movie ever, but far from the worst. How often do we get chess movies anyway? We should be grateful.

[@alachabre]

I have to disagree. It was filled with more inaccuracies than a game between two D players at a Sunday rapid. I could argue that a movie like _Pawn Sacrifice_ is why we _don't_ have more chess movies.

[@Sassol66]

It's a movie, not a documentary. Artistic license is allowed.

[@dannygjk]

Trash is trash artistic license notwithstanding.

[@meruzhansargsyan1476]

Ben you lied! I took exf5 in the Kong’s Indian and lost because of it

[@lolwhatyesme651]

BEEEN

[@yeeyeyyeyyyyeyeyye]

He wasn't down with OPP.. LOL. An old school hip hop joke 99% of viewers wouldn't get.

[@jancikollarik8176]

Mike Kummer surely did

[@lukacalov1988]

33:40 ahahahah

[@TheGoat7463]

Yeah but I am not at home.

[@madhusudanranganathan1382]

Spassky could've played N*c4. Gotten rid of the blocked knight with a threat and subsequent tempo...

[@kamzok]

Whose down with OPP 😂 very underrated joke unfortunately probably only 3 people understood it

[@bennya2846]

Ur only know because the engin told u…stop running down professional chess players bro, ur just an amateur

[@biswanathbera3011]

When you said most "shocking" move: rook takes f4. Then, Qg5+ and queen picks up rook back. At that moment, Rg4 picks up black's queen. So, SLAP HIM!!!

[@callumevans2615]

If Rook g4 then black plays knight takes g4 and he's threatening all sorts of discoveries

[@blackdog5956]

I have a chess engine too

[@dago6410]

petrosian boring? all games of his that i see on the internet he sacs stuff, smothers his oponent in glorious styl and has positions thatone drools to when seeing them XD boring is more like Karpov or even worse Carlsen, when the guy does absolutely nothing the whole game and wins a pawn in the endgame XD Petrosian was no boring :D

[@szhou009]

Fucking hilarious guy.

[@BongelaMnguni]

after Bxf7, I thought Kf8 is a better try

[@sumitmalik3106]

Ben didn't like "Pawn sacrifice"? Terrible!!!!!!!!!

[@matta5463]

"Never sacrifice"

[@leomessi1]

Ben is lame 😤